Commentary for Berakhot 36:13
[דלמא] דומה קדים ומכריז להו
[No;] perhaps Dumah informed [the dead] beforehand.
Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
A word meaning "silence" used in the Psalms to describe the silence of the grave ; cf. Ps. xciv. 17, cxv. 17. In the Talmud it is the name of the guardian angel of the departed.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
He announces to the disembodied spirits who will soon join them ; but otherwise the dead do not know what transpires on earth.
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